LINGUIST List 14.385

Fri Feb 7 2003

Calls: Lang of School Children/General Ling

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Oral Language of School Children: Acquisition, Teaching, Remediation
Short Title: Acquisition & Teaching
Location: Grenoble, France
Date: 23-Oct-2003 - 25-Oct-2003
Contact Person: Jean-Pierre Chevrot
Meeting Email: jean-pierre.chevrotu-grenoble3.fr
Linguistic Subfield(s): Language Acquisition
Meeting Description:
The general aim of this meeting is to encourage exchange between three
communities: researchers in the field of oral language acquisition,
researchers in oral didactics, and teachers and/or interested members
of the school community.
Objectives are:
- To promote dissemination in the wider educational community of
research into the development of oral language and of research into
associated teaching methodologies.
- To compare ideas about such methodologies and to specify their
relation to pedagogical practices and theories of development.
- To encourage research into language development in school
children.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Josie BERNICOT, Jean-Paul BERNIE, Maryse BIANCO, Jean-Franois DE PIETRO,
Joaquim DOLZ, Michel FAYOL, Agns FLORIN, Catherine GARITTE, Frdrique
GAYRAUD, Michel GRANDATY, Jean-Franois HALTE, Itziar IDIAZABAL, Harriet
JISA, Michle KAIL, Sophie KERN, Agns MILLET, Auguste MOUYAMA, Tu Huyen
NGUYEN, Elizabeth NONNON, Sharon PEPERKAMP, Alain RABATEL, Bernard
SCHNEUWLY, Elsa SPINELLI, Gilbert TURCO, Edy VENEZIANO.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Catherine BRISSAUD (catherinebrissaudwanadoo.fr)
Jean-Pierre CHEVROT (jean-pierre.chevrotu-grenoble3.fr)
Jean-Marc COLLETTA (jean-marc.collettau-grenoble3.fr)
Clarisse DUC (clarisse.ducgrenoble.iufm.fr)
Marielle RISPAIL (rispail.mariellewanadoo.fr)
Jean-Pascal SIMON (jean-pascal.simongrenoble.iufm.fr).
AIMS
Students' mastery of language is a recognized priority of the school
system. However, pedagogical practices related to oral language are a
complex issue for participants of the educational system. This is
partly due to the fact that curricula and related teaching practices
vary considerably, as do their underlying aims. These seemingly
contradictory aims include the following:
- to focus pedagogy on the learning of language structures or on the
learning of conversational skills;
- to teach standard usage or to encourage the ability to adapt one's
language to various situations;
- to favour communication and language practice or to favour
reflection on and analysis of language and communication.
The general aim of this meeting is to facilitate discussion of these
issues and to encourage exchange between three communities:
researchers in the field of oral language acquisition, researchers in
oral didactics, and teachers and/or interested members of the school
community.
The conference's overall objectives are:
- To promote dissemination in the wider educational community of
research into the development of oral language and of research into
associated teaching methodologies.
- To compare ideas about such methodologies and to specify their
relation to pedagogical practices and theories of development.
- To encourage research into language development in school children.
TOPICS
Proposals are invited for oral presentations (length: 20 minutes
followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or for posters (90cm*120cm ; 3
ft*4 ft) in the following areas. The organising committee reserves the
right to switch format type (poster/oral) to develop the best possible
program:
1. Description and modelling of language development:
- Spoken or sign Languages (production, understanding, metalinguistic
skills )
- Language acquisition (phonology, morphology, syntax, words) or
communication skills (pragmatics and socio-linguistics, text based,
prosody, body language).
- Development under normal or other circumstances (SLI or delay
related to other pathologies).
- Development in monolingual or multilingual contexts.
2. Description and modelling of educational practices:
- Analysis of official curricula, practices and contexts of oral
teaching and learning,
- Description of scholastic acquisition contexts and publics,
- Development and validation of learning, training and remediation
tools
Proposals must include observation-based data (corpora or
experiments). Particular attention will be given to proposals which
both deal with developmental and didactic problems. Proposals
concerning research on early development will be considered if the
research is related to later development (longitudinal studies).
SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
Please submit:
1/ one page with the following information:
- The name(s) of the author(s), and their affiliation(s).
- The postal and e-mail address of the first author, and her/his phone and
fax numbers.
- The title.
- A list of keywords.
2/ one page of a clearly titled, 600-word abstract for review
Official working languages are French and English.
Send submissions:
- By post : 8 copies to the following address:
Clarisse DUC Colloque Langage Oral 2003, IUFM de Grenoble
30 avenue Marcelin Berthelot, F-38100 Grenoble, FRANCE.
- Or by fax : 33 (0) 4 76 74 73 37
- Or by e-mail to: oral2003grenoble.iufm.fr
The proposals must be in an attached RTF file ; a postal copy is
recommended
if special fonts or symbols are used.
DEADLINE
All submissions must be received by March 31, 2003.
Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2003.
Accommodation information will be provided later.

European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Short Title: ESPP
Location: Torino, Italy
Date: 09-Jul-2003 - 12-Jul-2003
Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2003
Web Site: http://www.eurospp.org/espp_next.html
Contact Person: Richard Breheny
Meeting Email: reb35cam.ac.uk
Linguistic Subfield(s): General Linguistics
Meeting Description:
The aim of the Society is ''to promote interaction between
philosophers and psychologists on issues of common concern''.
Psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, computer scientists and
biologists are encouraged to report experimental, theoretical and
clinical work that they judge to have philosophical significance; and
philosophers are encouraged to engage with the fundamental issues
addressed by and arising out of such work. In recent years ESPP
sessions have covered such topics as spatial concepts, simulation
theory, attention, reference, problems of consciousness, emotion,
perception, early numerical cognition, infants' understanding of
intentionality, memory and time, motor imagery, counterfactuals, the
semantics/pragmatics distinction, reasoning, vagueness, mental
causation, action and agency, thought without language, externalism,
connectionism, hypnotism, and the interpretation of neuropsychological
results.
Invited Speakers
Axel Cleeremans, Brussels University
Paul Snowdon, UCL
Robert Stalnaker, MIT
Deirdre Wilson, UCL
Invited Symposia:
JOINT ATTENTION convened by Johannes Roessler, Warwick
EMOTIONAL REASON convened by Sabine Doering, Essen & Thomas Goschke, Dresden
MINIMALISM IN LINGUISTICS convened by David Adger, QMW London
SELF-REPORT & INTROSPECTION convened by Alvin Goldman, Rutgers
The Society invites papers and posters for this meeting. Submitted
papers are refereed and selected on the basis of quality and relevance
by psychologists, philosophers and linguists. Papers should not exceed
a length of 20 minutes (about 8 double-spaced pages) for a total 30
minute session. You may submit an abstract, except in the area of
philosophy where a full paper is preferred.
This year the Society encourages submission of symposia topics - the
convenor should submit a brief (1000 word) description of the
symposium topic together with the names of suggested participants (a
symposium is expected to contain 3 or a maximum of 4 speakers in
distinct fields).Potential convenors should email the description and
list of speakers directly to one of the programme chairs by 28
February 2003.
There will also be poster presentations. A submission for a poster
presentation should consist of a 500-word abstract. Submitted papers
may also be considered for presentation as posters.
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS AND POSTERS is 30 APRIL,
2003. Please send an electronic version (in PDF, PS or MS Word format)
to any ONE of the programme chairs.
Submission of applications can also be made by online submission at
http://www.eurospp.org/espp_next.html/submission.html (coming soon)
Programme Chairs:
Richard Breheny
Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics
University of Cambridge,
CAMBRIDGE CB2 1QA, UK
email: reb35cam.ac.uk
Zoltan Dienes
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology
School of Biological Sciences
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
email: dienesbiols.susx.ac.uk
Michael Martin,
Dept of Philosophy
UCL
LONDON WC1E 6BT, UK
email: michael.martinucl.ac.uk
The aim of the Society is ''to promote interaction between
philosophers and psychologists on issues of common concern''.
Psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, computer scientists and
biologists are encouraged to report experimental, theoretical and
clinical work that they judge to have philosophical significance; and
philosophers are encouraged to engage with the fundamental issues
addressed by and arising out of such work. In recent years ESPP
sessions have covered such topics as spatial concepts, simulation
theory, attention, reference, problems of consciousness, emotion,
perception, early numerical cognition, infants' understanding of
intentionality, memory and time, motor imagery, counterfactuals, the
semantics/pragmatics distinction, reasoning, vagueness, mental
causation, action and agency, thought without language, externalism,
connectionism, hypnotism, and the interpretation of neuropsychological
results.
Invited Speakers
Axel Cleeremans, Brussels University
Paul Snowdon, University College London
Robert Stalnaker, MIT
Deirdre Wilson, University College London
Confirmed Invited Symposia include:
JOINT ATTENTION convened by Johannes Roessler, Warwick
EMOTIONAL REASON convened by Sabine Doering, Essen & Thomas Goschke, Dresden
MINIMALISM IN LINGUISTICS convened by David Adger, QMW London
SELF-REPORT & INTROSPECTION convened by Alvin Goldman, Rutgers
This year the Society encourages submission of symposia topics - the
convenor should submit a brief (1000 word) description of the
symposium topic together with the names of suggested participants (a
symposium is expected to contain 3 or a maximum of 4 speakers in
distinct fields).Potential convenors should email the description and
list of speakers directly to one of the programme chairs by 28
February 2003.
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF SYMPOSIA TOPICS is 28 FEBRUARY, 2003
Successful applications will be asked to confirm speakers for their
session by 7 MAY 2003.
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS AND POSTERS is 30 APRIL,
2003. Please send an electronic version (in PDF, PS or MS Word format)
to any ONE of the programme chairs.
Submission of applications can also be made by online submission at
http://www.eurospp.org/2003/submission.htmlhttp://www.eurospp.org/2003/